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  • Michael Crichton

    Consensus isn’t science

  • Paul Bede Johnson

    Antidote to arrogance

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

    We are taxed on everything

  • John Hayward

    No duty to their constituents

  • Buddha

    Guiding principle

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Invisible empire

  • Blaise Pascal

    Might becomes right

  • Bertrand Russell

    Reluctantly forced to war

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Truth travels slowly

  • Arthur Keith

    Divergence of beliefs

  • Thomas Paine

    Governing by force and fraud

  • James A. Garfield

    Controlling the volume of money

  • J. P. Morgan

    People without homes will not quarrel

  • Mark Twain

    Intellects or imbeciles

  • Thomas Paine

    The fuel of liberty

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    The most important political office

  • J. C. Watts Jr.

    Trying to erase poverty

  • Bellamy Brooks

    Egotism

  • Baruch Spinoza

    Laws against opinions

  • Thomas Sowell

    One generation of the welfare state

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake